Returning to Paris he was admitted to the Hospital of Ste.

Anne as suffering from mental debility, but this did not prevent him from running off one night with about $300 belonging to a dispenser.

The police were put on his track and arrested him in May, 1895, when he tried to pass himself off as a lunatic; but he had become by this time too well known, and was indicted in due course.

At his trial he energetically denied that he had ever shammed, but the Court would not believe him, and sentenced him to four years' imprisonment with hard labour.
-- Trans.
Then came all sorts of ailments.

First those brought about by scrofula--a great many more legs long incapable of service and made anew.